Danmen Green, Chief of Military Intelligence at Fort Kaval, whose family has served the Reagan family for generations.

The Kru Commander's intelligence chief, who was now cautiously walking around the Ucalo camp quarters, was now on his way to meet Pedy Reagan, the supreme commander of the soldiers in the barracks.

He was bumpy about the arraignment.

I don't know when he began to fear the young ruler's summons.

Yes, he was afraid.

Danmen Green doesn't know what he's afraid of.

But he's scared!

In the more than half a year that Pedy Reagan took over the reins of Fort Caval, Danmen Green, who often accompanies him, can intuitively feel the changes in the other party.

When did the change begin?

Danmen Green's slightly lonely figure in the rain fell into memory...

He remembered that when he first met the young man on the lord's throne, he was struck by the impression that he was a gentle and elegant aristocratic young man.

At that time, Danmen Green would take the initiative to go to the brightly lit office almost every day to report to work, and the aristocratic young man would take the trouble to listen to his reports, and they would exchange a few words after each report.

For a long time, Danmen-Green considered himself lucky because he felt he had met an easy-going owner. Especially during the war between Kru and the Orcs, the MI became a special agency independent of the Knight Guard.

Baron Danmen saw this as his opportunity.

An opportunity for a shortcut to the upper nobility!

This was followed by the creation of the police department, similar to that of the Imperial Guard, in which she took away half of the power of the MIA. But Baron Danmen secretly breathed a sigh of relief, because Don Wright, who had kept him in his throat, and his intelligence system were allocated to the police station.

Before that, he had suspected that the position of chief of military intelligence would be replaced by Don Wright.

After all, the other party has that ability!

From this time on, Danmen Green was a little unable to understand the young man.

And then there was the thrilling battle of the Twak Leader.

Oh yes!

It was after this battle that the young ruler changed.

He was no longer so gentle, he became serious and suspicious of everything.

He no longer reveals his heart to anyone, and all that comes out of his mouth is orders!

He's become more like a ruler...

Danmen-Green looked up at the rain that filled the sky, the spring rain was so cold that Danmen-Green shivered, and he tugged at his cowhide cloak with both hands for fear that a drop of rain would pour into his clothes.

The intelligence chief, the cold-blooded leader of the killers, known as the 'Watchdog of Kavalburg', shivered under the icy rain at the moment.

"Your Excellency?" Danmen-Green's entourage wondered why his own adult had suddenly stopped.

"I'm fine!" Baron Danmen lowered his head as he wiped the water from his face, and in his hazy gaze he saw a figure, a figure that he was both envious and jealous of.

It's Don Wright!

He envied the other party's unscrupulous character and the intelligence system in the other party's hands.

Although Don Wright's lifeless face made Danmen Green look uncomfortable, he nodded politely. The other party smiled in return, and this smile turned into a sneer in Danmen Green's eyes.

The two of them staggered, and the ever-accommodating smell of blood on each other's bodies made Green frown, and he hated the smell.

...

Pedi's private tent was an ordinary tent in the upper reaches of a creek.

Baron Danmen repelled his entourage and stood alone outside the tent, feeling the warmth emanating from the tent.

"Master Pedy. He loosened his grip on the leather cloak with both hands, and though he knew that the young men inside could not see him, he stood respectfully outside the curtain of the tent.

At this moment, the coolness of the rain seemed to be able to affect him anymore.

"Come in. The sound from inside shook Danmen Green, and his steps almost subconsciously and uncontrollably stepped forward.

It was really warm inside.

"Come and sit down, I heard you're particularly afraid of the cold?" said Pedi first, this time no longer by hard orders.

Danmen Green was stunned and leaned over slowly, he didn't intend to live up to Pedy's kindness, because he was really cold, and this was a good opportunity to get close to the peak of Crewe's power... His steps were light, and a warmth slowly spread throughout his body with his steps, quickly dispelling the cold feeling that the rain had brought him.

Danmen Green sat on a bench made of wood, and Pedi sat across from him.

The two fell into an eerie silence.

Pedi didn't seem to be in a hurry to talk, he held the tongs and looked at the brazier quietly in a daze.

After feeling the warmth and comfort for a short time, an invisible pressure began to slowly increase with the passage of time, and it didn't take long for him to speak, "My lord, the nobles have a somewhat strong reaction to your 'order', they..."

"Let's not talk about it yet. Pedi interrupted Danmen-Green as he put a few pieces of charcoal in the brazier, and then he put down the tongs and exhaled a mouthful of turbid air that had accumulated from the long silence, and said, "Let's talk about the freedmen with weapons outside Crewe a few days ago. ”

Baron Danmen was stunned when he heard this, and his mind recalled the assignment that Pedi had given him a few days earlier, and he was still a little excited when he received this task, because it was supposed to be the purview of the police department to investigate the internal affairs of Crewe.

So, he organized a special team to investigate the matter. Just yesterday, the investigation was already a little eyebrow-raising, but it was not confirmed, and he did not report in a hurry.

That's right, yesterday's debriefing!

He couldn't help but start to feel a little uneasy in his heart.

He looked up to see the expression of the young ruler beside him, but Pedi was expressionless at the moment.

"Actually... In fact, in the three days before Knight Wren led the heavy cavalry corps to the battle, there were people in Crewe City who secretly controlled the discussion topics of the citizens. Baron Danmen tried to organize the language to explain the whole thing, "but their topic is not against Kawalburg, and there are even many good words in favor of the reform of Kavalburg's commercial tax!"

"Good words? Haha! What kind of good words are they?" Pedy looked at Danmen Green with a flash of his eyes.

Baron Danmen only felt a tingling in his scalp after feeling Pedi's gaze, and he lowered his head to avoid Pedi's gaze while pretending to think for a few seconds before saying: "They claim that tax reform can help to weaken the power of the aristocracy and increase the benefits of the people at the bottom, and they are secretly encouraging citizens to support your tax reform." ”

"What else?" said Pedi nodded and continued to ask.

"And... They are talking about the privileges of the nobility and the dangers of not paying taxes to the territory, and they are telling the truth!"

"How is it reasonable?"

"Half of the land in Crewe was in the hands of the nobles, but they paid less than one percent of the taxes, in other words, the rest of the vacancies had to be replenished by the low-level citizens and the freedmen of other villages. "But as the population of the Crewe Territory grows, the gap will get bigger and bigger, and in the end, it will even require two-thirds of the wealth of each family in the Crewe Territory to fill the remaining gap." ”

"I'm curious how they calculated it..."Pedi laughed suddenly, "anything else?"

They enumerate the dangers of war brought about by the privileges of the nobility, especially the entangled interests of the various territories in recent decades because of the rise of the trade economy, and these entangled interests were the trigger for the outbreak of war. Baron Danmen said: "There have been more than 100 civil wars between the lords of the Crewe Territory in the past 20 years, and the major chambers of commerce have calculated that the trade losses caused by these more than 100 wars are as high as nearly 500,000 gold coins, and the products plundered by the lords and the local losses caused are even more astronomical!"

"I'd love to see their ledgers if I had the chance!" Pedi said in a tone that seemed to be teasing, and as if he was giving orders with the utmost seriousness.

"And..."

"I won't listen to the rest. Pedi waved his hand. In fact, he knew better than anyone the danger of the local separatist lords to the entire Kru Territory, but he knew better the meaning of the words 'too much'.

Now, it's not a hands-on time for local territories at all.

Look at the mess now, just one Cade Leader needs to send such a huge army to quell it, what if all the lords come against him?

Don't talk about all the lords, the four major autonomous territories are enough for him to have a headache.

Of course, if Pedi chooses to come to an all-out war, his chances of victory are still quite good.

But is it worth it?

A full-scale war in your own territory, turning the entire territory into ruins, and then slowly rebuilding?

Maybe that's a solution.

But Pedi wouldn't do that,

Because he also cherished his reputation, and he was a prudent man.

...

Baron Danmen heard the impatience of the ruler in front of him, his hands shook slightly, and his mind began to recall what he had just said.

At this time, Pedi asked, "Tell me, who planned that, well... A very special send-off ceremony. ”

"When we first started our investigation, everything pointed to a young man, the favorite nephew of Sir Derick Denny, president of the Danny Chamber of Commerce..."

"Is that Sir Bowenright's nephew, Daric Danny?" Pedi began to take seriously.

"Yes, that's him. Baron Danmen hesitated a little as he said this, "But then we found out that Sir Derik's nephew is just a shield, and the real person behind it is someone else, very surprisingly, he is not Derik Danny, he is Sir Seke Marat, the leader of the Baran Town Business Alliance!"

"Seke-Marat?" Pedi's face changed, he knew this man, he had already met with the other party alone more than twice, and the old Sir Seke gave him a good feeling, he had planned to use the other party to enrich his court bureaucracy soon.

Pedi stared at his Chief of Intelligence, "Sir Seck is a wise old man, and if he were to do this, it wouldn't be so simple. ”

"This is only a preliminary investigation and has not yet had time to confirm. Baron Danmen immediately added, and when he had finished speaking, he immediately kept his mouth shut.

"Where is Sir Seck now?"

"Yesterday's news, in the town of Seca!"

"Arrange immediately, I will see him in five days. ”(https:)

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